A biography for Bill Dedmanhasn’t been written yet.
“Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.”
“Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.”
“Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.”
“Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures.”
“There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.”
“I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.”
“Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.”
“Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.”
“Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'”
“'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.”
“Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.”
“There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.”
“In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.”
“The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.”
“The real Representative McDermott said Jason McDermott is no relation. The Congressman does have a son, but his name is James and he does not live in the Midwest.”
“Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.”
“History is the best guide to the future.”
“Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.”
“One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.”